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Critical Notices . — Theological . 279
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Art . III . —Ejsumen de la Doctrine des Ecrituresy touch ant la Personne de Jesus Christ , la Redemption , et le Heche Originel ; suivi d * une Dissertation sur la Religion Nature lie . Par Jean Andre * de Luc , Auteur de 1 * Histoire du Passage des Alpes . Geneve , J 830 .
Our readers will be pleased to find that books of English Unitarianism are attracting the attention of the Genevese ; nay , more than this , that a spirit of free inquiry into the several doctrines of Christianity is animating the inhabitants of the interesting cantons of Switzerlaud ; and that promise id afforded ere
lout » of the most decided and acknowledged adoption of the primitive religion of Jesus . We know that the Genevese have , for a considerable period , perceived the light ; but the acknowledgment of it , in spite of all opposition , is perhaps that in which they have been deficient . M . De Lac presents a bolder and more determined character . Mr . Belsham ' s
Calm Enquiry is frequently referred to in this volume . His consistent scheme of Unitarianism is that which is here advocated . It will be unnecessary to enter into the minutke , with which our readers are well acquainted . We shall content
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ourselves with informing them that a few copies of the above work bare been imported by the Unitarian Association , who have agreed to insert this Interesting contributiou to continental Unitarianism in their catalogue for the present
year . We extract the following paragraph relating to a text , the precise nature of which is at present a matter of discussion : " On sait que le mot Dieu ne se trouve point dans les manuscrits les pins auciens et les plus approuves , ni dan * aucune version de quelque reputation . Ce mot n ' est cite now plus par aucun des premiers ecrivaius Grec , m par an con ecrivain Latin . Mais ce qul est un argument decisif , c ' est que , dans la controverse Arienne , avant le sixieme siecle , on n ' a jamais cite" ce mot com me une auto rite , et ce ne fut qu'& cette epoque qu'on dit que le mot Dieu fut introduit dans les copies Grecques , par Maee * donius , e * veque de Constantinople . —P . 123 . The following note is subjoined : ** Cet historique est tire * de Tottvrage de Th . Belsham sur la personne de Jesus Christ . Je l ' avais communique a M . Gaussen , roais il n ' en a teini aucnn compte , comrae on peut le voir dans sa lettre . " —Pp . 57 , 68 ,-72 .
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This extract , as it is merely a philosophical sketch of one department of the experience of human life , is not a fair specimen of the spirit of the volume . It is merely quoted for the excellence of its pulpit style . Every discourse in the collection exhibits the fervour of the author ' s Christian piety and charity . To the work itself , therefore , we refer our readers .
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Art . II —Elements of Religion and Morality : in the form of a Catechism . By W . E . Channins , D . D . London : John Mar don . 1831 . Experience has led us to doubt whether religious instruction by question and answer is ever acceptable or serviceable to children : but if any work could reconcile us to the catechetical method , it
would be the one before us . By many answers being given to one question , the pernicious association of mere sound is avoided , and the child is obliged to think before he can answer any way but straight forwards . It is nearly impossible to help making such a work too abstract for little minds ; but the present is perhaps as interesting as its plan will allow .
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Art . IV . —De la Religion Saint-Simonienne . Aux Eleves de PEcole Poly technique Cinq Diseours , &c . Paris . 1830 . The extended notices which have already appeared in our periodical on the subject of the St . Simonite faith preclude
the necessity of any analysis of the pamphlet before us . It contains five lectures , addressed to the pupils of the Polytechnique School , on the subjects of Religion , Deity , Humanity , Heritage , and an Appeal to those whose attention is awakened to the system ou their duties
to humanity . Deep as is our interest in all these subjects , and in the mode in which they are treated of here , it is with the last that we have most to do . Of all the responsibilities which attach to those who have influence in society , none , perhapn , is at present more serious than that
which arises from an observation o * this new sect . In sober seriousness we believe that nothing has occurred since the Reformation in which the interests oi Christianity , that is , of humanity , have been so deeply Involved as in the development of this new doctrine ; aud it t »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/63/
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